diff --git a/src/os/inc/common_types.h b/src/os/inc/common_types.h
index 277c85ec9..b9749e9ad 100644
--- a/src/os/inc/common_types.h
+++ b/src/os/inc/common_types.h
@@ -91,10 +91,24 @@ extern "C"
     typedef size_t    cpusize;
     typedef ptrdiff_t cpudiff;
 
+#ifdef OSAL_OMIT_DEPRECATED
     /**
      * A type to be used for OSAL resource identifiers.
+     * This is a type-safe ID, and cannot be implicitly converted to an integer.
+     * Use the provided inline functions in osapi-idmap.h to interpret ID values.
      */
-    typedef uint32_t osal_id_t;
+    typedef struct
+    {
+        uint32_t v;
+    } osal_id_t;
+#else
+
+/**
+ * A type to be used for OSAL resource identifiers.
+ * This typedef is backward compatible with the IDs from older versions of OSAL
+ */
+typedef uint32 osal_id_t;
+#endif
 
     /**
      * A type used to represent a number of blocks or buffers
diff --git a/src/os/inc/osapi-idmap.h b/src/os/inc/osapi-idmap.h
index 93048c4b9..bf9ef7619 100644
--- a/src/os/inc/osapi-idmap.h
+++ b/src/os/inc/osapi-idmap.h
@@ -80,7 +80,11 @@
  */
 static inline unsigned long OS_ObjectIdToInteger(osal_id_t object_id)
 {
+#ifdef OSAL_OMIT_DEPRECATED
+    return object_id.v;
+#else
     return object_id;
+#endif
 }
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -98,7 +102,11 @@ static inline unsigned long OS_ObjectIdToInteger(osal_id_t object_id)
  */
 static inline osal_id_t OS_ObjectIdFromInteger(unsigned long value)
 {
+#ifdef OSAL_OMIT_DEPRECATED
+    return (osal_id_t) {value};
+#else
     return (osal_id_t)value;
+#endif
 }
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -119,7 +127,7 @@ static inline osal_id_t OS_ObjectIdFromInteger(unsigned long value)
  */
 static inline bool OS_ObjectIdEqual(osal_id_t object_id1, osal_id_t object_id2)
 {
-    return (object_id1 == object_id2);
+    return (OS_ObjectIdToInteger(object_id1) == OS_ObjectIdToInteger(object_id2));
 }
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -140,7 +148,7 @@ static inline bool OS_ObjectIdEqual(osal_id_t object_id1, osal_id_t object_id2)
  */
 static inline bool OS_ObjectIdDefined(osal_id_t object_id)
 {
-    return (object_id != 0);
+    return (OS_ObjectIdToInteger(object_id) != 0);
 }
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/